[ovs-dev] [async 6/6] ofproto: Implement asynchronous OFPT_FLOW_MOD commands.

[Ethan Jackson]

I am planning to review it today.  Was hoping to get to it last week
but got distracted by a couple of unrelated bugs.

Ethan

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 09:35, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:25:22PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Some switching hardware takes a very long time to update its forwarding
>> rules, up to hundreds of milliseconds.  It is undesirable for Open
>> vSwitch to block waiting this long for individual OpenFlow flow table
>> modification commands to complete.  This commit enables ofproto to queue
>> up any number of independent flow table operations with asynchronous
>> completion.
>
> I didn't get a review on this yet.  I know that it needs a little bit
> of work, but the basics should be solid.
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